View more than 180 amazing, up-close images with the Talking Electron Microscope! View various zoomed versions of 60 images and hear 5 fun facts about each image in Learning Mode – then switch to Quiz Mode and test your knowledge! Images include the human body, viruses and bacteria, plants, animals, and other “stuff.”

It is called an electron microscope, but it is not a microscope at all. It is a shell with dozens of pre-existing images that you view on a tiny computer screen. My daughter was really looking forward to collecting and examining her own samples, but that is not an option with this item. There is no reason to buy this--you can find higher resolution electron microscope images on the internet.

Was this a gift?:

Yes

Bottom LineNo, I would not recommend this to a friend

Merchant response: Hi Holly,We're sorry you and your daughter were disappointed. This is actually the only version of an electron microscope available as a "toy" - it's designed to introduce young scientists to the types of amazing images they could see and the way they might see them through a real, scientific, electron microscope.